Gooey css effects with contrast parent

Question

I\'m trying to create gooey effect with CSS only (without svg). Everything goes right but my parent container has a contrast filter and I can\'t us

Answer 1

I have taken your effect. On the container, I have set a pseudo element that covers it, with whatever color you want.

And with a mix-blend-mode, I can set this color where the container is black, keeping the remaining white:

(By the way, a very nice effect !)

body{
  background: #fff;
}

.blobs {
  position:absolute;
  top:0;
  left:0;
  bottom:0;
  right:0;
  background: #fff;
  width:400px;
  height:200px;
  margin:auto;
  filter:contrast(20);
  -webkit-filter:contrast(20);
}

.blobs:after {
  content: "";
  position: absolute;
  top:0;
  left:0;
  bottom:0;
  right:0;
  background-color: coral;  
  mix-blend-mode: lighten;
}

.blob {
  background:black;
  width:100px;
  height:100px;
  position:absolute;
  left:50%;
  top:50%;
  margin-top:-50px;
  margin-left:-50px;
  border-radius:100%;
  transition: cubic-bezier(0.82, 0.1, 0.24, 0.99) 1.5s;
  box-shadow: 0 0 30px 10px black;
}

.blobs:hover .blob:first-child {
  transform:translateX(-70px);
}

.blobs:hover .blob:last-child {
  transform:translateX(70px);
}

Added another way to get your request. This is harder to set up, but will work on Edge, where filter is available but blend modes do not.

This snippet involves using 2 of your previous setting, and a different primary color for each. (You could already achieve primary colors with your original setting).

To get a particular color, you set different alphas to the 2 settings, and somehow you can achieve any color that you want (even though the process is not easy)

body{
  background: #fff;
}

.blobs {
  position:absolute;
  top:0;
  left:0;
  bottom:0;
  right:0;
  background: #fff;
  width:400px;
  height:200px;
  margin:auto;
  filter:contrast(20);
  -webkit-filter:contrast(20);
  opacity: 0.99;
}


.blob {
  width:100px;
  height:100px;
  position:absolute;
  left:50%;
  top:50%;
  margin-top:-50px;
  margin-left:-50px;
  border-radius:100%;
  transition: cubic-bezier(0.82, 0.1, 0.24, 0.99) 2.5s;
}

.blobs:hover .blob:first-child,  
.blobs:hover ~ .blobs .blob:first-child {
  transform:translateX(-70px);
}
.blobs:hover .blob:last-child, 
.blobs:hover ~ .blobs .blob:last-child {
  transform:translateX(70px);
}
.blobs:nth-child(1)  {
  opacity: 0.57;
}
.blobs:nth-child(1) .blob {
  background: red;
  box-shadow: 0 0 30px 10px red;
}
.blobs:nth-child(2)  {
  pointer-events: none;
  opacity: 0.08;
}
.blobs:nth-child(2) .blob {
  background: yellow;
  box-shadow: 0 0 30px 10px yellow;
}
.test {
    width: 100px;
  height: 100px;
  position: absolute;
  left: 0px;
  background-color: rgb(255, 113, 93);
}

Another try, this time with a more complex filter.

The color is achieved with a hue-rotate

body {
  background: #fff;
}
.blobs {
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  right: 0;
  background: #fff;
  width: 400px;
  height: 200px;
  margin: auto;
  -webkit-filter: contrast(20) hue-rotate(-25deg);
  filter: contrast(20) hue-rotate(-25deg);
}
.blob {
  background: red;
  width: 100px;
  height: 100px;
  position: absolute;
  left: 50%;
  top: 50%;
  margin-top: -50px;
  margin-left: -50px;
  border-radius: 100%;
  transition: cubic-bezier(0.82, 0.1, 0.24, 0.99) 1.5s;
  box-shadow: 0 0 30px 10px red;
}
.blobs:hover .blob:first-child {
  transform: translateX(-70px);
}
.blobs:hover .blob:last-child {
  transform: translateX(70px);
}

Another try, this time a single div ....

.test {
  border: 1px solid black;
  width: 600px;
  height: 400px;
  background-color: white;
  background-image: radial-gradient(circle, red 100px, transparent 140px), radial-gradient(circle, red 100px, transparent 140px);
  background-position: -150px 0px, 150px 0px;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  -webkit-filter: contrast(20) hue-rotate(35deg);
  filter: contrast(20) hue-rotate(35deg);
  transition: background-position 2s;
  animation: crazy 13s infinite steps(12);
}
.test:hover {
  background-position: 0px 0px, 0px 0px;
}
@keyframes crazy {
  from {
    filter: contrast(20) hue-rotate(0deg);
  }
  to {
    filter: contrast(20) hue-rotate(360deg);
  }
}

Trying to get a solution that works cross-browser . Added javascript to check blend-mode availiabily.

Just click the button to run the function.

function check () {
  if('CSS' in window && 'supports' in window.CSS) {
    var support = window.CSS.supports('mix-blend-mode','lighten');
    if ( ! support) {
      var element = document.getElementById('blobs');
      element.classList.add('compat');
    }
}
}

body{
  background: #fff;
}

.blobs {
  position:absolute;
  top:0;
  left:0;
  bottom:0;
  right:0;
  background: #fff;
  width:400px;
  height:200px;
  margin:auto;
  filter:contrast(20);
  -webkit-filter:contrast(20);
}

.blobs:after {
  content: "";
  position: absolute;
  top:0;
  left:0;
  bottom:0;
  right:0;
  background-color: coral;  
  mix-blend-mode: lighten;
}

.blob {
  background:black;
  box-shadow: 0 0 30px 10px black;
  width:100px;
  height:100px;
  position:absolute;
  left:50%;
  top:50%;
  margin-top:-50px;
  margin-left:-50px;
  border-radius:100%;
  transition: cubic-bezier(0.82, 0.1, 0.24, 0.99) 1.5s;
}

.blobs:hover .blob:first-child {
  transform:translateX(-70px);
}

.blobs:hover .blob:last-child {
  transform:translateX(70px);
}

/* compatibility */

.blobs.compat {
  -webkit-filter:contrast(20)  hue-rotate(-25deg);
  filter:contrast(20)   hue-rotate(-25deg);
}
.blobs.compat:after {
  content: none;
}

.compat .blob {
  background: red;
  box-shadow: 0 0 30px 10px red;
}

  

  


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